Scott A Hughes 2001 Class. Quantum Grav. 18 4067 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/18/19/314
Gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals: challenges in mapping the spacetime of massive, compact objects
Scott A Hughes
Show affiliations In its final year of inspiral, a stellar mass (1-10 M
) body orbits a massive (105-107 M) compact object about 105 times, spiralling from several Schwarzschild radii to the last stable orbit. These orbits are deep in the massive object's strong field, so the gravitational waves that they produce probe the strong-field nature of the object's spacetime. Measuring these waves can, in principle, be used to `map' this spacetime, allowing observers to test whether the object is a black hole or something more exotic. Such measurements will require a good theoretical understanding of wave generation during inspiral. In this paper, I discuss the major theoretical challenges standing in the way of building such maps from gravitational-wave observations, as well as recent progress in producing extreme mass ratio inspirals and waveforms.
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Issue 19 (7 October 2001)
Received 5 July 2001
Published 17 September 2001
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Gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals: challenges in mapping the spacetime of massive, compact objects
Scott A Hughes 2001 Class. Quantum Grav. 18 4067
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